Word: pushings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...them deliberately try to push out older workers, because they can pay newer workers less. One chef went, during my year there, from a line chef (the main chefs, responsible for preparing the entrees), to a pastry chef, to a salad preparer, and was on his way to becoming a baker working an overnight shift when I left the club. They could not fire him or reduce his wages (thanks to the union), but they could humiliate him into leaving...
Elizabeth Dole is joined in her push by House Speaker Newt Gingrich and Republican National Committee chairman Haley Barbour, who would like the candidate to name someone shrewd, trusted and sporting enough to try to coordinate Dole's decisions as majority leader with the demands of a tough campaign against Bill Clinton. Party leaders suggest that only a few Republicans have the stature to go toe to toe with Dole: former South Carolina Governor Carroll Campbell, former Minnesota Congressman Vin Weber and former Reagan chief of staff Kenneth Duberstein. But there are two problems: Dole has always jealously guarded that...
...final fortnight, the dueling ads will push hard at emphasizing the different views of life in Israel. Labor's spots glow with the benefits of the peace process. Happy, smiling Israelis are shown cavorting amid prosperity; youngsters speed down a highway in a yellow convertible while the Golden Arches of the newly arrived McDonald's beckon. The images in the Likud ads stress the flaws in the current peace: a bus decimated by a suicide bomber, a burning car hit by a Hizballah Katyusha...
Therein lies the weakness in Peres' current lead. Late last week a poll showed the Prime Minister with about 49% of the vote to Netanyahu's 45%. Wooing enough floaters to push him over the 50% threshold depends on a continuation of the respite from terrorism that Israel has enjoyed in recent weeks. Labor insiders confide they are extremely fearful Palestinian bombers will strike anew, especially given that security officials have evidence they are trying hard to do just that. According to a survey last week, most Israelis believe if there is no new terror attack, Peres will...
...thunderstorms. A tornado, however, requires something else as well: the presence of what meteorologists call wind shear. This occurs when winds in the so-called boundary layer--the part of the atmosphere closest to earth--blow more gently than winds at higher elevations. These two wind streams push on the layer of air that lies between them as though it were an invisible rolling pin. Then, as the warm updraft that powers a supercell shoots toward the stratosphere, it tilts the rolling pin so that it spins on its end. Soon the updraft starts to spin, giving birth...